A Relógio d'Água publicou recentemente uma tradução de Hadji-Murat (sim, a famigerada, com a foto de Turguéniev em vez da de Tolstói na orelha do livro, russos barbudos, sabem como é, isto pode pensar-se que é tudo igual). Já existia uma tradução da Cavalo de Ferro, mas aí o herói chama-se Khadji-Murat, creio que as diferenças no título se explicam meramente por questões de transliteração. O New York Times traçou um perfil desta última obra de Tolstói.
Para quem se interesse pelo autor, vale a pena ler. Aqui fica um excerto (link incluído):
Tolstoy stubbornly records details inside Russian camps and, transcendentally (for he was as isolated as any soldier in a foreign land), inside Chechen homes. He opens the novel with the smell of the dung-fed fire in a mud hut, where Hadji Murad is preparing his defection. The conversation has nothing to do with money or grand theories of progress. Instead, quick sparks of sentiment and honor flicker out of the rituals of greeting, eating and prayers.
This empathy allows Tolstoy to catch the generosity and joy in battle of a young Russian officer attacking a village, but also the burned house and the bayoneted boy. Tolstoy shows how, in the fine texture of the local resistance, self-interest can blend with honor, fury and religion in “a natural instinct akin to the instinct of self-preservation.”
Para quem se interesse pelo autor, vale a pena ler. Aqui fica um excerto (link incluído):
Tolstoy stubbornly records details inside Russian camps and, transcendentally (for he was as isolated as any soldier in a foreign land), inside Chechen homes. He opens the novel with the smell of the dung-fed fire in a mud hut, where Hadji Murad is preparing his defection. The conversation has nothing to do with money or grand theories of progress. Instead, quick sparks of sentiment and honor flicker out of the rituals of greeting, eating and prayers.
This empathy allows Tolstoy to catch the generosity and joy in battle of a young Russian officer attacking a village, but also the burned house and the bayoneted boy. Tolstoy shows how, in the fine texture of the local resistance, self-interest can blend with honor, fury and religion in “a natural instinct akin to the instinct of self-preservation.”
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